Electric can opener with juice squeezing attachment

An electric can opener including

• (i) a can opener body, and
• (ii) a can opening attachment
• said can opener body including
• (a) a housing having a work surface on one surface thereof,
• (b) a drive shaft mounted in such a way that the drive shaft is rotatable with respect to said housing, and is partly exposed to the work surface, wherein the work surface is bored with a mounting hole, said mounting hole including a large diameter hole portion and a small diameter hole portion formed laterally of and continuous to said large diameter hole portion, said small diameter hole portion being positioned, with respect to the large diameter hole portion, on the side where said drive shaft is rotated,
• (c) a motor provided within said housing and associated with said drive shaft,
• (d) a vertically holding portion for positioning said housing so that said drive shaft assumes a horizontal condition, said vertically holding portion being provided in a part of the housing, and
• said can opening attachment including
• (e) a base plate, a horizontal rotating shaft rotatably mounted on said base plate, a mounting shaft is projected from a surface of the base plate opposed to said work surface, and the distance from said horizontal rotating shaft to the mounting shaft is made equal to the distance from the drive shaft in said can opener body to said mounting hole, said mounting shaft including a small diameter portion on the base plate side and a large diameter portion on the forward end side thereof, said small diameter portion being reduced in diameter as compared with that of the small diameter hole portion so that the small diameter portion may be moved laterally towards the small diameter hole portion after the former has been passed through said large diameter hole portion, said large diameter portion being reduced in diameter as compared with that of said large diameter hole portion but increased in diameter as compared with that of said small diameter hole portion so that when said small diameter portion is moved laterally from the large diameter hole portion towards the small diameter hole portion, said large diameter portion is moved towards a deep portion of the small diameter hole portion to prevent the mounting shaft from being slipped out of the mounting hole,
• (f) a can feed gear mounted on said rotating shaft, said can feed gear being adapted to place an ear of a can thereon, and
• (g) a cutter slidably mounted on said base plate, said cutter being adapted to cut into a can lid of the can whose ear is placed on said can feed gear.